Nutmeg Meeting - Friday 10/9/09 8 - 9:15 a.m. Nathan Hale School
present: Noreen, Sharon, Steve, Joan, Corinne
Tee shirt contest - deadline is Dec. 8th. Ten entries (max) per school.
Noreen booked Buckley for Jan. 28th (Thursday) from 6 - 8 p.m.
We should invite superintendent, Board of Ed members, head of library, library board? (ask Mona) Also need to submit it to newspaper, in school newsletters, and invite all teachers.
Format: Like last year - PP with 10 questions per book, 5 multiple choice and 5 open-ended, plus some bonus questions. Joan liked the medals for the winning team.Steve needs questions by Nov. 6th.
Notes from Meeting on 11/18/09** Nutmeg applications will be accepted in sequence of when they were submitted to the media specialist. We should write the date directly on the application, give it a priority number 1-10 and send them on to Andy. Each school will be allotted ten guaranteed spaces until the deadline date and after that any leftover spaces will be released and assigned to students who exceeded their schools allotment on a first come first serve basis. Your excess applications should also be sent to Andy.
Jen Jalbert will create the flyer for Nutmeg Night.
Books assigned:
Noreen - Drita
Joan - Attack of the Turtle
Sharon - Archer's Quest
Corinne - Stumptown Kid
Sue - A Dog’s Life: The Autobiography of a Stray
Lisa -- The Year of the Dog
Debbie - Double Identity
Andy-The Ghost's Grave
Jen-Paint the Wind
Jean-Rules
With $919.00 we have enough money for tee shirts. [Joan's suggestion: each school give $10.00 from their bookfair money to help with tee shirt costs.]
Steve will order them again. Can we get books from Scholastic?? Giving each participant a book was a great idea!! If we can afford that again it would be GREAT!
Tee shirt contest - Start now. Get flyer out - Joan talking to Pat. Talk to art teachers, No more than 10 designs submitted per school so suggestion was for art teacher/media specialist/or students vote - on the favorites. Designs due by the 8th so we can decide at our Dec. meeting. They will cost $6.00 per shirt - same as last year.
Keep to 10 teams. If more than 100 kids are signing up we need to re-think what to do. Some discussion of 2 nights - some thought this was a terrible idea. Then idea was to have it in two rooms with 2 powerpoints - but we won't worry about that until we see sign-ups.
Also talked about having a Spice Bear (stuffed animal) wearing a tee shirt visit each school to drum up interest.
From Lisa- 10/7/09:
1) suggestions from last year: send letter of invitation to each principal and superintendent and assistant superintendent; have bottled water rather than soda; don't ask t-shirt size, order equal number of kids' large and x-large and adult large and x-large; Register up to 100 students; Bring a stop watch for quiz show
2) money -- we have a little less than last year - $919 versus $1075 last year. However, Pat is working with either Baker & Taylor or Barnes and Nobel (maybe both) to donate some of our prize books.
3) Do we have the t-shirt contest again or come up with a different spirit-raiser?
4) Do we need to do anything to secure Buckley?
Nutmeg Meeting - Friday 10/9/09 8 - 9:15 a.m. Nathan Hale School
present: Noreen, Sharon, Steve, Joan, Corinne- Tee shirt contest - deadline is Dec. 8th. Ten entries (max) per school.
Noreen booked Buckley for Jan. 28th (Thursday) from 6 - 8 p.m.We should invite superintendent, Board of Ed members, head of library, library board? (ask Mona) Also need to submit it to newspaper, in school newsletters, and invite all teachers.
Format: Like last year - PP with 10 questions per book, 5 multiple choice and 5 open-ended, plus some bonus questions. Joan liked the medals for the winning team. Steve needs questions by Nov. 6th.
Notes from Meeting on 11/18/09** Nutmeg applications will be accepted in sequence of when they were submitted to the media specialist. We should write the date directly on the application, give it a priority number 1-10 and send them on to Andy. Each school will be allotted ten guaranteed spaces until the deadline date and after that any leftover spaces will be released and assigned to students who exceeded their schools allotment on a first come first serve basis. Your excess applications should also be sent to Andy.
Jen Jalbert will create the flyer for Nutmeg Night.
Books assigned:
Noreen - Drita
Joan - Attack of the Turtle
Sharon - Archer's Quest
Corinne - Stumptown Kid
Sue - A Dog’s Life: The Autobiography of a Stray
Lisa -- The Year of the Dog
Debbie - Double Identity
Andy-The Ghost's Grave
Jen-Paint the Wind
Jean-Rules
With $919.00 we have enough money for tee shirts. [Joan's suggestion: each school give $10.00 from their bookfair money to help with tee shirt costs.]
Steve will order them again. Can we get books from Scholastic?? Giving each participant a book was a great idea!! If we can afford that again it would be GREAT!
Tee shirt contest - Start now. Get flyer out - Joan talking to Pat. Talk to art teachers, No more than 10 designs submitted per school so suggestion was for art teacher/media specialist/or students vote - on the favorites. Designs due by the 8th so we can decide at our Dec. meeting. They will cost $6.00 per shirt - same as last year.
Keep to 10 teams. If more than 100 kids are signing up we need to re-think what to do. Some discussion of 2 nights - some thought this was a terrible idea. Then idea was to have it in two rooms with 2 powerpoints - but we won't worry about that until we see sign-ups.
Also talked about having a Spice Bear (stuffed animal) wearing a tee shirt visit each school to drum up interest.
From Lisa- 10/7/09:
1) suggestions from last year: send letter of invitation to each principal and superintendent and assistant superintendent; have bottled water rather than soda; don't ask t-shirt size, order equal number of kids' large and x-large and adult large and x-large; Register up to 100 students; Bring a stop watch for quiz show
2) money -- we have a little less than last year - $919 versus $1075 last year. However, Pat is working with either Baker & Taylor or Barnes and Nobel (maybe both) to donate some of our prize books.
3) Do we have the t-shirt contest again or come up with a different spirit-raiser?
4) Do we need to do anything to secure Buckley?